Bracelet with Striped Patches

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Object Name:

Bracelet with Striped Patches

Accession Number:

73.1.22

Dimensions:

Overall W: 1.1 cm; Exterior Diam: 6.8 cm; Interior Diam: 5.5 cm

Location:

Not on Display

Date:

1200-1999

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Betty Gruene Speir

Primary Description:

Opaque yellowish green, with opaque green, opaque yellow, and opaque orange cane slices, and opaque white and deep purple cane. Formed on rod or conical tool; applied. Bracelet: seamless, with semicircular cross section. Green matrix inlaid with six identical, roughly rectangular cane slices, each of which has striped decoration more or less perpendicular to circumference of bracelet: green flanked by yellow stripes, with orange stripes on outside; at greatest diameter, small sections of spirally twisted white and purple trail. Inside of bracelet has mostly matte, deep gray surface.